This most intimate season brings a pregnant pause, full of expectant preparation and allowing for things unknown, unseen. As spiritual beings having a human experience, vocal artist Virginia Schenck will share some of her sacred practices including music, art, poetry, and travel both within and without on this pilgrim journey. On Wednesday, December 2, our topic will be Sacred Listening: It all begins with Breath.

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The current clamor for reconciliation, however vibrant, often overlooks the issue of sin. When sin does receive mention, it is usually cast as a set of specific transgressions. It is altogether tempting to account ourselves free of such transgressions when confessing to one another. But from Paul, Augustine and Calvin to Jonathan Edwards, sin has been understood as a distortion of seeing from which none of us escape unaided. As St. Frances de Sales put it, "Our Devotion is colored by our own likings and dispositions." Rarely do we probe the ways in which our conceptions of sin, especially in the Augustinian tradition, not only inform but also legitimate institutional racism. In the course of this class, we will undertake just that: discerning the role of the conception of sin in legitimating institutional racism.

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